What is JWT security?

JWT, or JSON Web Token, is an open standard used to share security information between two parties — a client and a server . Each JWT contains encoded JSON objects, including a set of claims. JWTs are signed using a cryptographic algorithm to ensure that the claims cannot be altered after the token is issued.

Read more

Can we decode JWT token?

Because JWTs are just URL safe strings, they’re easy to pass around via URL parameters, etc. They contain JSON-encoded data. This means you can have your JWT store as much JSON data as you want, and you can decode your token string into a JSON object .

Read more